Condensing all calendars into 1 in ical on iphone

iphone 3G running 4.1 syncing with MacBook Pro OS X 10.4.11. Somehow I've ended up with events in nearly 8 different calendars in ical on computer - how do I condense them all into one calendar say "home"? and sync with iphone only one calendar?

I figured it out -- embarrassed to have asked....

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I want the folders I already backed up to come together into one folder when that year is over. Is there a way to manually do that or automatic through TM?
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Is there a new easier way to combine all calendars into one?

This is a two-part question...
I was wondering if anyone had found an easier way to do this instead of exporting a calendar and importing into a main calendar, and repeating untill all calendars were in one. I have 8 calendars on my computer, but then another 11 on iCloud. These were done over years and had I known how confusing it would get I would never had created more than one or two. I would assume the iCloud calendars with the same names as my computer calendars would be sync'd and have same info?
But also, in many of these calendars I have multiple entries. "Doctor appointment at 3:00"... Maybe 8 times on one particular day. Those multiples are scattered about through all calendars. It's a mess! lol! Is there a way to globally delete duplicate entries on the same day and time? Or must that be a manual task?
Any help someone could give me would be greatly appreciated, and Thank You in advance!!
Earth Guest

Okay, I realized it wouldn't take much time to export and import all those calendars into a new all-inclusive calendar, so I've done that. One at a time I exported each calendar to a folder on my desktop. Then I made the new calendar and imported from that "exported" folder, each cal that I exported. I wonder how confident I can be that everything came into the new calendar? I mean, it went back to 2006 or so.
I want to delete all the old calendars. If I do that, will iCloud delete those calendars as well, or do I have to manually delete them from iCloud or it will sync and add back to my computer what I had just deleted? I guess iCloud will update and sync to the new single calendar?
I know I'm asking a lot of questions. I'm just scared of losing years of records of dates I may need to remember. I'm not a very technical person (as you may have guessed :-)!

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Hi! I hope someone can help me.
I'm trying to import a calendar from iCal to iPhoto but there are only 2 calendars listed in the iPhoto list (and I have 6 in iCal). To make it easier to understand, I took two pics of my screen:
This is the calendars available to import in iPhoto: http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/565/screenshot20100110at133.png
This is the calendars that I have in iCal: http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/565/screenshot20100110at133.png
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When I sync my iPhone calendars at work, I am getting duplicate all day events (ie, birthdays, anniversary, etc). I'm using the Entourage sync services to create an iCal.
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Thanks!

I have had a similar problem with all-day events in Entourage.
So far, I have had to manually delete the unwanted all-day events, but once deleted, they have not come back.
My theory is this: I already was syncing Entourage and iCal even before the iPhone. When I added the iPhone, it added a Calendar called "Entourage" to the iCal. It synced Entourage, my home iCal, my work iCal, and the iPhone to the iCal "Entourage" Calendar, leading to multiple junk. I added an application to my Mac which automatically keeps track of library books I have checked out, and puts the due dates on my iCal. When I added this, I got a whole new round of double all-day events.
You can delete them either in Entourage or in the iPhone, but I have gotten more reliable results doing it in Entourage.
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Simone

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+Accidentally posted this in the 10.5 Server section, hopefully there's not a problem posting it here as well, but since I'm on 10.6.7 Snow Leopard Server I thought this section might have an answer:+
Having a weird issue with a Wiki Calendar that I want to share throughout the office. I created a group and then created a Wiki for it using the Server Preferences, then enabled the Calendar in the Wiki Preferences. This works fine, calendar shows up when logged into the wiki.
Next I wanted to have it accessible from both the Web for the few PC users we have and from iCal for our Mac users. I added the Wiki calendar with the following settings in iCal:
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User name: shortname (of a group member)
Password: (password of group member)
Server address: server.mydomain.com/principals/wikis/groupshortname
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/principals/_uids_/wiki-groupshortname/
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What I did is checking if one of the server updates causes the problem:
- Clean installation of 10.6.3
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- Checking user calendar was fine - with the user wikis and calendar is no problem at all.
Wikis:
- New test-wiki and new calendar entry was as it should (in the calendar folder under the real wiki-name folder - not 465465464654645something)
- Connecting with iPhone worked calender are updating
- Connecting with iCal from OSX failed (could not find UID__4565465436135thing)
- Updating the server with 10.6.6 combo
- second test-wiki and new calendar entry was as it should (in the calendar folder under the real wiki-name folder - not 465465464654645something)
- Connecting with iPhone worked calender are updating
- Connecting with iCal from OSX ok and updating
- I copied two of my production wikis in the collaboration folder and the calendar are updating with iCal and iPhone
- Updating the server with 10.6.7 combo
Without loosing a second the server is making new calendars and renames the Websites Name of the calender with 4653134604645065406something.
- But only with the migrated wikis from 10.5 not with the new test wikis
I will now make another installation and update to 10.6.6 only and try to reconfigurate the server.

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I can not find any app that syncs with the ToDo list in iCal on my Mac.
*APPLE - Why can't you add this capability the Calendar app?* You have room for a "ToDo" button to the right of the "Month" view button. The All Calendar ToDo view in iCal is THE MOST USEFUL ToDo view in iCal and should be available to us on the iPhone.
It is extremely awkward to find ToDo items using the Mail app on the iPhone and almost as bad to use them in the Mac mail tool. Sync with Mail does NOT solve this problem.
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There is no way top natively sync ToDo's with your iPhone. It's been a complaint since the very first iPhone came off the line. If you have a desktop GTD program like OmniFocus, you can get the iPhone version, and this syncs vis-a-vis iDisc or mobileme. Things has a similar setup that syncs through WiFi. Some People use the free Zenbe Lists program, but you must have an active internet connection on both your mac and your iPhone for this to work.
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Even hundred dollar programs like OmniFocus can't do this (although you can set up a sync between OmniFocus and your iCal tasks -- but this has to be synced manually.
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For listing the months, you can use a number, a 3 character string, or the full name.
For the export value, the full name, the 3 character value, the 1-2 number, or the 0-11 JavaScript value.
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2) You could write an Applescript to locate the events and write them into a text file for printing.
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Found the answer after troubleshooting on my own. I was able to do this on a PC by using Office 2007 and the calendar in there. I also had to setup Mobile Me to the calendar on my PC which was fairly easy.
What you'll have to do is have Mobileme sync your calendar data with Outlook.
Then after they sync in Outlook... manually select each imported calendar, choose to view all appointments, select all (to select all of your events), copy, then paste them into the main "Calendar".
Follow this step for all of your calendars and it works like charm.
The only thing left to do after you've copied them all is to delete the old calendars after you have all of the events copied.
This may be able to be done in iCal too using similar methods, however it was really easy for me to do it in Windows with Outlook 2007.
Just keep in mind that you want to view all events from each separate calendar and just copy those into your main calendar.

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I run a PC at the office as well as a PC laptop of my own. However - my G4 is my main hub computer at home and from whence all roads lead to and from.
I am on sbcglobal (Yahoo!) for e-mail and one of the niftier things I can do is "sync" (via Intellisync software available for free from Yahoo!) my ENTIRE contacts and calendar from my office PC Outlook and export it into Yahoo!. I have determined that I can export a vCard file out of the Yahoo! contacts database and then import that into my Address Book (OK - some minor tweaks/editing needed on my part after the import) but EVERYTHING is there - very cool indeed.
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